Paris capitale du XIXe siècle. Gaule Volume I: songs I-VI

Volume I: songs I-VI

six empires alternated in the Near East: in Mesopotamia

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Between arid desert and rich river valleys

Conceived by the Musée du Temps in partnership with the Tomi Ungerer Museum - International Center for Illustration in Strasbourg

Paris capitale du XIXe siècle. Gaule Volume I: songs I-VIBaudelaire's genius, which finds its nourishment in melancholy, is an allegorical genius. For the first time in Baudelaire's work, Paris becomes the object of lyrical poetry. This local poetry is the opposite of all poetry of the soil. The gaze that the allegorical genius casts upon the city betrays, rather, a feeling of profound alienation. This is the gaze of a flaneur, whose way of life conceals behind a benevolent mirage the distress of the future